Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: humor

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

We will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that we have no sense of humor.

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.

I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life.

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.

At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.

I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself. People who are concerned with their looks and what they're wearing and how they present themselves tend to have less of a sense of humor about themselves.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny.

Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.

Sometimes, I use humor because I believe in revealing truth in a way that other forms cannot.

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

I think it's critical, a sense of humor. It did help me - it does help me, continuously.

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

I love the idea of things being strict and things being uniform. That's the reason why I surround each collection with humor or irony. I want to make sure that it's not too serious and that there is some element that throws it off because otherwise that would make it really boring. There's always a story that's somewhat fantastical.

Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously in fashion.

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.

There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

I have been a big fan of the 'Fast and the Furious' franchise. The films are fast-paced, fun and keep the audience involved. There is a great mix of humor and action, something I really appreciate.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.